Format:
Book
Title:
The Da Vinci code : a novel / Dan Brown.
Author:
Brown, Dan, 1964-
Call Number:
FIC BROWN D
Edition:
1st ed.
Publisher, Date:
New York : Doubleday, 2003.
Description:
454 p. ; 25 cm.
Summary:
While in Paris on business, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon receives an urgent late-night phone call: the elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum. Near the body, police have found a baffling cipher. While working to solve the enigmatic riddle, Langdon is stunned to discover it leads to a trail of clues hidden in the works of Da Vinci--clues visible for all to see--yet ingeniously disguised by the painter. Langdon joins forces with a gifted French cryptologist, Sophie Neveu, and learns the late curator was involved in the Priory of Sion--an actual secret society whose members included Sir Isaac Newton, Botticelli, Victor Hugo, and Da Vinci, among others. In a breathless race through Paris, London, and beyond, Langdon and Neveu match wits with a faceless powerbroker who seems to anticipate their every move. Unless Langdon and Neveu can decipher the labyrinthine puzzle in time, the Priory's ancient secret--and an explosive historical truth--will be lost forever.
Subjects:
Leonardo, da Vinci, 1452-1519 -- Manuscripts -- Fiction.
Cryptographers -- Fiction.
Genre:
Mystery fiction.
ISBN:
9780307277671 (trade)
0385504209
9780307474278 (pbk.)